United States of the 1950s, replacing Pharisees with white supremacists and Samaritans with African-Americans. The Message, by Eugene Peterson, seeks to clarify obscure passages and put them in the gritty language of everyday life. The original Living Bible was a paraphrase of the American Standard Version (a formally equivalent translation completed in 1901) by Kenneth Taylor, which he composed for his children during his daily train commute.3 (The New Living Translation, however, is not a paraphrase